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doctor voice hello yes im here returning your call about scheduling! ^_^ so the next appointment we have is tomorrow at 4am. after that the earliest we can get you in is december 2025... either of those sound good to you?

guy who has accidentally only ever slept with pre-op trans women, seeing a cis woman take her pants off: whoa girl i think theres something like. really wrong with your penis

you cant employ me in a way that matters

“Kill them with kindness.” Of course. Just make sure you do kill them.

[ID: the "take it easy. but take it!" guy recaptioned "Kill them with kindness" "BUT KILL THEM"]

it’s a common misconception that maths is all theoretical; they actually keep the 0 in a vault in France and u can go look at it if u got connections.

most numbers can only be found in the platonic realm of forms but there are a bunch of seven-digit primes that physically exist inside british museums as a holdover from the days when britain had colonies inside the platonic realm of forms

being a jack of all trades master of none is actually so awesome bc i can make the shittest clay sculpture and the ugliest drawing and the sloppiest painting and the worst hand stitches and the wonkiest earrings and it's like. who cares + now im surrounded by lots of different silly things i made with love and care etc

My great uncle, who loved cooking and engineering and traveling and far too many other things, always used to say:

"Among the cooks, I am the best engineer, and among the engineers I am the best cook."

I love that. It's one of the things I try to live by.

Why did English keep the German ‘stark’ as an intensifier but only for ‘naked’ and ‘raving mad’

two most German modes of being

This month I’ve decided to participate in an event called “October,” where for every day in October I’m going to experience a day in October.

Here’s the prompt list I’m using in case anyone wants to join me in this challenge:

Next month I’m thinking of trying out the “No November November” challenge, where I’ll refrain from experiencing November for the whole month of November.

[Image description: A list with a heading that reads: "October" daily challenge list. The list starts with an entry reading "1: October 1st". The list continues from 1 to 31, each entry listing the corresponding day of October. Image description end.]

wait but is it art? hey excuse me, sir? is this art..? am i allowed to think that this is beautiful? hello, can somebody PLEASE tell me if this art? im scared. i need to know if permitted to like it, please

I’m thinking of adding more movies to my “tumblr’s favorite movies” letterboxd list, so put in the tags what your favorite movie is, no matter the genre, and only one!

here is the list if you're interested to see other people's favorites (x)

''they never left [location]'' is such a good way to communicate the way characters get hung up on the past in this mixture of trauma and yearning and it pains me because i have NEVER seen that phrase outside of the mcyt community. how am i meant to explain it. yeah june never left sburb. yeah my oc never left that russian forest. no not physically. trust me i know what i mean.

in the movie "Der Krieger und die Kaiserin", one of the protagonists is said to still be "on the toilet" long after an incident in which his wife died, which he watched after leaving the restroom of a filling station

"Bake for 10 - 12 minutes" is obviously code for "bake for exactly 11 minutes."

10 minus 12 minutes you say?

hey just a heads up, I'm now blocking blank accounts who follow me bc of the whole bot issue here on tumblr

if u're a human behind a blank account using it to lurk, and u don't want to be blocked by artists, u can change ur layout and make even one post on ur account indicating that u're real! this is just general tumblr etiquette too, many ppl with block empty accounts under the impression that they're bots ><

cafes as a concept are like. brilliant. u put something that smells nice (coffee and pastries) and you get to eat them and the inside is soft lighting (autism) and they play quiet music (autism) or theyre bright and have big windows with pretty natural lighting (autism) and they play upbeat music and you can wear cute outfits to them and not worry it will get messed up because the menu is not messy foods and its usually foods with similar ingredients (autism) and the drinks are built in a pattern thats repeated across cafes (autism) so even if youre somewhere unfamiliar you can figure out what youll like safely. and sometimes their are CATS THERE. and even GAY PEOPLE

oh yes also you can socialize (autistically) by bringing a fun activity or work and still sit near people so you dont feel lonely but also everyone works parallel to eachother and is niceys and doesnt bother you.

🔥 THIS POST IS NOT ABOUT STARBUCKS 💥🔥

You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.

By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.

I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?

it's probably from assholes making asks a minefield of trolling/harassment for years with no real blocking ability, which turned people off from allowing asks on their blogs so as a whole the site moved away from it

but now that we do have better blocking, we should try to revive it.

Reblog if your ask box is open.

I don't get nearly as many as I used to, definitely. I had to remove anonymous from mine, unfortunately, and that did a lot to remove people who were too embarrassed to say even nice things with their real identity.

It is open for real human persons, though!

You’ve probably seen that post floating around Tumblr a while ago:

So I got curious, and I did some research, and apparently, the poet was Su Dongpo, also known as Su Shi (8 January 1037 – 24 August 1101), and he wasn’t just a poet - he was a writer, poet, painter, calligrapher, pharmacologist, gastronome, and a statesman of the Song dynasty.

That particular event happened while he was assigned to an official post at Guazhuo, and the “friend who lived across the lake” was actually Chan master Foyin, who was the master of a temple on the mountain on the opposite shore.

A translation of the poem Su Dongpo sent to master Foyin:

Foyin wrote “Pi” on the poem (”fart”, but also “nonsense”), and sent it back, and the rest is history.

He (Su) also wrote this absolute banger of a poem, which I often think back on in these benighted times:

[Image ID: this contains the text of the poem “On the Birth of a Son” by Su Dongpo, also transliterated as Su Tung-Po. The translator is Arthur Waley. The text reads: “Families when a child is born / Hope it will turn out intelligent. / I, through intelligence / Having wrecked my whole life, / Only hope that the baby will prove / Ignorant and stupid. / Then he’ll be happy all his days / And grow into a cabinet minister.”]

once you start wearing a good pair of cargo pants everywhere you absolutely cannot go back. like sorry im an anime character now and these are my default pants. not my fault theyre appropriate for work and school and hanging out and concerts and hiking and the grocery store and going out for dinner and the bank and a first date and a job interview and a day trip. pockets for days for anything you may need. like she has the range.

I went from always corduroys to always cargo pants to always skirts